Janus: Jardine Matheson Archive

Manuscripts/MS JM/A8 contains:
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121/25	Returns for opium and specie
121/26	Memoranda on tea revaluations
121/27	Instructions for British West Indian Emigration Establishments
121/28	Report extract on the 'Argyle'
121/29	Documents on the insolvent Hengtai hong
121/30	Narrative of events at Canton
121/31	Memoranda from James Matheson and William Jardine
121/32	Resolutions of the Canton British Chamber of Commerce
121/33	Memo. on a journey between Hankow and Su Chew-fu
121/34	Opium memoranda and accounts
121/35	Memorandum from J.G. Dunn
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Jardine Matheson Archive

Title	Narrative of events at Canton
Reference	MS JM/A8/121/30
Covering Dates	circa 1839
Extent and Medium	1 item

Content and context

'Brief Narrative of Events connected with the placing in durance, by the Chinese Government, of Her Majesty's Chief Superintendent, and all Foreigners at Canton, to extort the surrender of all Opium under their control in Ships off the Coast of China', relating to events in March 1839. The document is an undated draft, with emendations in the hand of James Matheson.

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